Lindisfarne Press
The Lindisfarne Association (1972–2012) was a nonprofit foundation and diverse group of intellectuals organized by cultural history, cultural historian William Irwin Thompson for the "study and realization of a new planetary culture". It was inspired by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead's idea of an integral philosophy of organism, and by Teilhard de Chardin's idea of Omega Point#Evolution, planetization. History Thompson conceived the idea for the Lindisfarne association while touring spiritual sites and experimental communities around the world. The Lindisfarne Association is named for Lindisfarne Priory—a monastery, known for the Lindisfarne Gospels, founded on the British island of Lindisfarne in the 7th century. Advertising executive Gene Fairly had just left his position at Interpublic Group of Companies and begun studying Zen Buddhism when he read a review of Thompson's ''At the Edge of History'' in the ''New York Times''. Fairly visited Thompson at York Unive ...
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